Hm. I wonder what was up with that? Maybe the white kids were segregated from the black kids when they worked? I know that black people were obliged to work at the most strenuous, dangerous jobs (loading cargo on ships, clearing swamps, etc.) in the South … and given cocaine to get more work out of them.
Gotta admit, the history books I’ve read kinda skim over what the situation was in the 1880-1920 span, during which there was the historic migration to the Rust Belt cities in search of work…